Jabir is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “comforter.” In 2024 it was given to 17 boys in the United States.
Jabir at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“comforter”
About the name Jabir
Jabir belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “comforter” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Jabir first appears in Social Security records in 1977. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #4538 in 2019, and in 2024 17 babies received the name — 376 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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